Let Us Fly! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGHGIJIJ KLKLMMMM FNFNAOAO PMPMDM DM| Let us fly It is long past eleven | A |
| The watch dogs are silent the moon | B |
| Hath all but abandoned the heaven | A |
| And midnight is sinking in swoon | B |
| Not a chirp to be heard in the thicket | C |
| The kine are asleep in the byre | D |
| All is hushed here I stand at the wicket | E |
| Alone with my pulses on fire | D |
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| There silently close you the lattice | F |
| Now daintily drop we the latch | G |
| What is that O my pretty one that is | H |
| A sparrow that moved in the thatch | G |
| Quick a hasty foot over the orchard | I |
| The horses are saddled beyond | J |
| To night 'tis our fate to be tortured | I |
| To morrow night nothing but fond | J |
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| Yet I pause O my Mabel my beauty | K |
| If they who sleep tranquil within | L |
| But knew how Love wrestles with Duty | K |
| They weakness would call it not sin | L |
| If they the calm clients of virtue | M |
| But once on your bosom had throbbed | M |
| They would swear 'twas a crime to desert you | M |
| And pardon the felon that robbed | M |
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| No Sooner the shade of the cypress | F |
| Stretch premature over your tomb | N |
| Than the tread of the slanderous vipress | F |
| Should pitiless darken your doom | N |
| And in the last Grand Accusation | A |
| For selfishness falsehood or sloth | O |
| This act of sublime abnegation | A |
| Shall trumpet tongued plead for us both | O |
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| Giacomo back to the stable | P |
| I shan't want the horses to night | M |
| And see you be gentle with Mabel | P |
| It is not her temper but fright | M |
| Soft and warm deep and broad be her litter | D |
| And her mane most caressingly curled | M |
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| O God love is sweet loss is bitter | D |
| And I am alone in the world | M |
Alfred Austin
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